QR Challenge: Benefits and Risks of Economic Growth

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. New jobs created	benefit 1
2. Higher real income, higher living standards	benefit 2
3. More tax rvenue for the government	benefit 3
4. Higher profits can fuel increased investment	benefit 4
5. Rising wealth may be used to reduce poverty	benefit 5
6. Increased funds available for infrastructure	benefit 6
7. Risk of demand-pull inflation	disad 1
8. Rising inequality	disad 2
9. Risk of environmental damage	disad 3
10. Over exploitation of scarce resources	disad 4
11. Opportunity cost of increased capital invetment	disad 5

 

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